Bruins tie game late, but lose to Oilers in overtime

Talbot’s 47 saves were a career-high.

Edmonton earned its last win in Boston on November 7, 1996.

The Capitals, who came in 14-1-2 when scoring the initial goal, did exactly that 3:53 in on Backstrom’s hard wrist shot from between the circles that beat goalie Marc-Andre Fleury to the glove side.

In the case of why they didn’t solve Talbot more often, they knew they weren’t as tough in the trenches as they needed to be.

“I’m never going to fight him but maybe I can goad him into something”, shrugged Hall, the former Spitfire who is eight inches and 60 pounds short of the Bruins’ captain. The shot was a screaming one-timer, but it was from outside the scoring chance area. Then in a game where the Bruins didn’t get more than two bounces, he was rewarded by one of the fortunate hops of the puck.

Goalies can affect outcomes like nobody else in hockey can do. The victory halted an eight-game losing streak in Boston for the Oilers, fresh off a 5-0 homestand – their best since 1987. “I think there is a little bit of belief that we can play against the top teams and we can go out there and win these games”, Oilers left wing Lauri Korpikoski told reporters after notching a hat trick in the wild 7-5 victory over the New York Rangers on Friday.

“We have won games this year that we definitely didn’t deserve to win and this was one of those ones that we probably should have won”, Marchand said. The B’s fell to the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 in overtime at the TD Garden.

The shots were 49-24 in favor of the Bruins.

Against Edmonton, Gustavsson was the victim of bad luck.

Rinaldo didn’t have any particular incident that could have been pinpointed as a potential injury moment, but did drop the gloves in the first period with Matt Hendricks after throwing a big hit on Jordan Eberle during a previous shift. Zdeno Chara was skating into his corner for a routine puck retrieval when he lost an edge and crashed into the boards.

Edmonton made it 2-0 when Nugent-Hopkins scored on his own rebound 13:58 into the first. The puck came right back to Sekera, who got around right winger Landon Ferraro, picked up the puck and beat goaltender Jonas Gustavsson with his second goal of the season. Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves, but captain Sidney Crosby was held without a point and Pittsburgh’s power play went 0 for 2. But they also got some luck. “So we have to do a much better job of that next game”. “I see a lot of pitch and catch with those guys and to me, that’s chemistry”, Chiarelli said. Mika Zibanejad restored the final margin to two goals late in the period.

In 26 games for Boston this season, Rinaldo has tallied one goal, one assist and 53 penalty minutes. Krug hummed a one-timer off the crossbar. “It’€™s disappointing to not get the two points tonight”. “We seem to have a better calming presence on the bench and in the room. We stayed with it. We got back in the second and third and played a really good game”.